The Boy in the Suit
By (Author) James Fox
Scholastic
Scholastic
12th September 2024
12th September 2024
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief
Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and be
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying and harassment
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem
823.92
Paperback
384
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 25mm
260g
In the cost of living crisis, this huge-hearted, generous, empathetic book has never been more timely. Ten-year-old Solo - embarrassingly, that isn't short for anything - just wants to be normal. He wants a name that doesn't stand out. He wishes he had a proper school uniform that fitted him. He dreams about a mum who doesn't get The Big Bad Reds, like his mum Morag. But most of all he longs to stop crashing funerals for the free food. But when Solo and Morag crash the funeral of a celebrity and get caught, the press are there to witness their humiliation. The next day it's splashed across the papers. Before Solo knows it, he becomes a viral sensation, and life may never be normal again. What follows is Solo's uphill pursuit of security, and connection, while navigating circumstances far beyond his control.